When Tim tells Lex to turn off the flashlight,
Lex says, "I'm sorry" without moving
her lips.

The air, which blows off Grant's hat comes
from below, not from the T-Rex.

When the helicopter is landing, you see
the cars move to the edge of the pond, where
they can't go back any farther, but when the
helicopter lands, and Malcom ect. are getting
out, the cars are moving back. -Vic Cherubini

When the kids are running away from the
raptors in the kitchen, notice when the little
boy is at the end of a long stainless steel
counter, a large ladle / spoon suddenly drops.
Look closely at the grid just below the counter,
you can see someone push the spoon onto the
floor, he never even touched it. - monica polo

As Dennis leaves the jeep when he is at
the main gate he leaves the jeep door open.
When he returns the door is closed. - Steven

When Ian Malcom is talking to Elle about
unpredictability the time on his watch keeps
changing from 6:20pm to 7:45pm. - Steven

Not a goof but this has always bothered
me, when the velociraptor is trying to get
through the door near the end and Alan and
Ellie are holding it shut, she try's to reach
for the gun but says "I can't get it
unless I move". Why didn't Tim who was
just standing there watching grab the stupid
thing. - FlyBoy

In the final scene, Lex is holding onto
the skeleton but then lets go and starts to
fall, but then, after she has fallen, she
somehow has managed to fly and grab back on.
- FlyBoy

In the scene where Richard Attenborough
is looking at the blueprints, he says Disneyland
opened in 1956, in fact it opened in 1955.
- Unblown

In the scene where Laura Dern is running
toward the building to turn on the main power
switch she jumps over the same log twice.
- Unblown

The kitchen scene, when the raptors look
through the window in the door, you can see
a reflections from a moving hand or something!
- Mads
Hansen

When the helicopter arrives at jurassic
park they ride through the first gate than
the man is shown closing and sliding the large
bolt to lock it. Just before the camera leaves
the scene you can see the gate start to open.
- Vic

As the lawyer runs to the toilets, he leaves
the door open, the next time we see the explorer
from the rear car, the door is clearly closed.
Yet as the T-Rex moves towards the car, Tim
reaches over and closes it. - Martin

Steven Spielberg went through the trouble
to recreate some really lovely dinosaurs.
However, in the beginning of the tour through
the park, a Brachiosaurus, tallest of the
sauropods (and perhaps all of the dinosaurs)
standing on its hind legs. Now this is silly.
Virtually all sauropods could do this. The
only one which couldn't--was Brachiosaurus.
What made it so tall was the fact that its
front legs were so long. It also precluded
it from rearing. - Pertinax

In the scene where t-rex pushes the car
over the concrete cliff thing with tim in
it, the car is upside-down. Then the next
time they show the car (when grant finds it
in tree) the car is positioned in the tree
right side up. The way the car was falling
down it would've had to do a 90 degree turn
while sliding, and i don't think a car going
at that speed and the angle on the concrete
wall it would have flip a whole 90 degrees.
- jpfreak

At the beginning of the movie, the helicopter
lands, and the man and woman run to the trailer
to see who has arrived, in the kitchen, the
grey haired bearded man is wiping a glass
with a small white dish cloth which magically
changes into a pink one!!!! - ArtMan

The scene towards the end when they are
re-activating the power generators, the actor
suddenly turns around to see the raptor snarling
behind the chain-link fence... meanwhile,
the light up above the animatronic raptor
is actually burning it! you can see smoke
and all!!! - Lord
Raidis

Frogs DNA was used in association with the
blood of dinosaurs to bring them back, but
from all the scientists knowledge of dinosaurs
they didn't seem know dinosaurs are closer
related to birds. Seems kinda strange don't
you think? - Kaz

Notice the incorrect spelling of stegosaurus
on the freezer. - brad

Addition:
In addition to Brad's goof, that stegosaurus
was spelled wrong in the freezer, the
big star of the movie, Tyrannosaurus,
was also spelled wrong in the freezer,
with only one 'n', instead of two. - Ryan

When the goat's leg lands on the car, blood
is draining from the leg. Yet in the next
scene when the t-rex is pushing down the fence,
there is no blood on the goat's leg. - david
lewis

When T-Rex flips Tims and Lex's JEEP over
in the background is a plant in a pot and
a stagelight. OOPS!!! - James

The T-Rex would have never gone after those
minute, meaningless, morsels of people when
there were much larger, meatier, satisfying
dinosaurs for it to snack on. - Naslectronical

The Velociraptors sure know how to clean
their plate well. After the steer is lowered
into their holding area, and the crane is
lifted back up, there's not so much as a piece
of flesh or a drop of blood. - Naslectronical

During the scene where the rapters are fed
the steer, we don't get to view them yet but
do hear their snarles and see the bushes shake
violently. If you look closely or slow-motion
it you can see part of a man's head and shoulders
crouched down apparently aiding the effect
of the leaves shaking. He's in the middle/upper
right part of the screen. - Scott

Not a goof but, ever wonder why when Nedry
wrote 2 million lines of code for the automation
of the park, but a human 'gatekeeper' MANUALLY
opens the cage, while standing on top of the
cage no less, to allow a 'raptor out? I guess
the technology of ropes and pulleys had not
been discovered yet. - Robot
Tekk

The scene in the computer room, while Dr.
Grant and Elli are holding the door, the raptor
hits the door open for a second, and you can
see the raptor's head in the door's window
the whole time, but as the door swings open,
you can't see the side of the raptor. It looks
as though the raptor was flat. - CBStryker

After Grant calls up Hammond, the raptors
start to come in through the window. We hear
4 shots, but there are only 3 shells shown
in the scene following. (I watched that particular
scene and counted: 4 shots fired, 3 shell
found.) - Straea

When the kids are stuck in the SUV, the
windows are dry, then there are raindrops,
then the windows are dry again. - Kieth
Moreland

Toward the end of the film, Richard Attenborough
is eating ice cream, lamenting the failure
of his park. In a long shot, Laura Dern is
seated across about an eight foot table from
him. The shot switches to a close up of Laura
Dern who extends her arms (clearly not far
enough based on what we know to be the length
of the table) to get her own spoonful of ice
cream. - Kieth
Moreland

In the scene where the T-Rex is eating the
goat, the leg of the animal falls onto the
sunroof of the vehicle. You can't help but
notice, when the T-rex tries to break through
the glass to reach Tim and Lex, that there's
no sign of the goat leg, or any blood. Weird
huh? - Rose

This movie is absolute garbage - among the
many mistakes - Velociraptor's in real-life
were only half the size of a man. - The
Briggster

Grant tells us that the T-rex's sight is
based on movement - how does he know - I read
it wasn't! - The Briggster

In the scene where the t-rex is attacking
the kids in the explorer the t-rex breaks
the sun roof in half and in the next scene
the glass for the sun roof is back together
again. - chris

When Tim and Lex run into the kitcen, and
when the two raptors open the door, and enter
as well, you can see a crew man grab the raptor's
tail and pull it down. - Ryan. - Ryan

Near the beginning where they are feeding
the raptors a man falls back towards the camera
you can clearly see the camera man put up
his hand to support the man. - jordan

When Dr. Grant and Timmy are climbing down
the tree to escape the jeep that is slowly
falling toward them, wouldn't it just be common
sense to climb to the other side of the tree
where the jeep isn't? And when the three are
driving away from the T-rex Dr. Malcolm does
a cool trick where he is in front then in
back all in a matter of a microsecond. There
is some real editing magic going on in that
scene. Nevertheless, it is still only a movie...
not a documentary. - Spayro65

When Elli turns the power back on she turned
the power back on for all the fences, but
when she runs out of the shed and inside the
chainlink fence the holds onto it. The fence
is clearly marked "DANGER 10,000 volts".
- Andrew
c.

In Jurassic Park there is a scene where
you see a computer screen showing fences of
the park losing power and going out. Included
with this bunch is a fence labled "Raptor
Fences" Later, Muldoon asks Ray Arnold,
the computer guy, weather the raptor fences
are out. Arnold says no, the're still on.
I checked with other Jurassic Park websites
for this flub but they did not have it. -
grasshopper

When Nedry's jeep gets stuck, he looks down
and the sign shows the road going straight,
then after he falls down the hill, the arrow
is pointed another way. And did anyone notice
that when Ian, Satler, and the other guy are
driving away from the T-rex, Ian feels up
on Satler's leg. (You cannot notice it in
the widescreen version). - bill

After the first T-Rex incident Dr. Grant
and the kids decide to sleep on a tree. Before
they fall asleep we can see the tree has practicly
no branches nor leaves (at least around them).
Yet they wake up with a dinosaur eating tones
of leaves that were not there the previous
day! - Monterrey

In the very beginning while they are getting
ready to release a raptor into the pen, you
will notice that they are all on a platform
(look at the bottom of your screen as the
crane is bringing the cage to the workers).
Well, two times during the movie (once while
feeding the raptors and second while Ellie
and the hunter are going to reset the power)
there is no edge shown. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Comment: STOP
copying and pasting flubs that are clearly
on other websites. All your doing is putting
them in your own words. I saw a website
that has some of your "flubs"
worded, word for word. STOP! - Mac

Another thing is while they are opening
the cage, that door looks very heavy, yet
as the raptor rams it and the cage slides
back, it stays up. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Also, as the raptor trying to eat one of
the workers, why doesn't it go after Robert
being more accessible instead of fighting
him for his dinner? (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Another goof is in the computer room when
(Samuel L. Jackson) is typing, it shows that
what he is typing and saying are not the same
things (in fact!, they are reversed). (VHS)
- LadyLaraCroft

While Needry is having a net meeting w/
his buddy about reaching the docks in time,
you can see that the conversation was pre-recorded
being the play bar is moving at the bottom
of the window. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Also, note that while Needry is stealing
frozen embryo's some of the dinosaurs names
are spelled incorrectly. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Also in the beginning, as Dr. Grant, Ellie,
John, Ian, and the lawyer are all flying to
the island in the helicopter, note the seating
arrangement. Now after they land, it is totally
reversed. John would have to climb over all
of them to get out first, and same w/ everyone
else. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Right after Ian, Ellie, and Robert have
just escaped the chase from the T-rex, Ian
says "Think they'll have that on the
tour?" Well if you look in the background
right as he's saying that, you can see a vehicles
headlights peering through the forest for
just a second. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Speaking of that scene (above) , as the
T-rex is munching on a tasty raptor, for a
split second (you have to use slow-mo to see
this) the raptor disappears out of the rex's
mouth. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Another funny goof is while on the tour.
They stop in front of the T-rex's pen and
at one scene it shows water on the windows,
but in a later one a couple seconds from them,
their windows are dry. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

In conclusion, my final goof to point out
is in the forest as Robert is telling Ellie
to run towards the shed. If you notice, it
shows 3 logs to jump over, but she ends up
jumping 4 times, did she jump over one of
them twice? (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

When the kids are first attacked in the
jeep the T-Rex breaks through the plexy glass
top breaking it in two. The next camera shot
shows the kids on their backs using their
feet to hold up the unbroken glass. - Guido

Remember when the people come to see the
T-rex for the first time and the T-rex breaks
the fence and you see it clearly the dinosaur
before coming on the road he is walking on
the ground with trees in back of him and when
the T- rex goes after Lex and Grant they back
up to the fence and there is a cliff and they
go down it with the wire. Then how come when
the T-rex is coming it look like he is walking
onlevel with the fence. (VHS) - Jurassic
boy

There was one ridiculous scene where Dr.
Sattler has escaped the raptors in the power
station. She emerges and sees Dr. Grant, then
says, in a very dramatic voice, "RUN!"
as though there is a raptor bearing down on
him. Immediately after she says the line,
she jogs up to him and they stand there hugging.
(VHS/Theatre) - Stupendous
Man

Also, for some reason they edited Mr. DNA's
voice from the theater to VHS. In the theater
version, Dr. Hammond says, "Oh! Mr. DNA!
Where did you come from?" and Mr. DNA
answers, "Your blood" in this weird
drawl reminiscent of Dracula movies. But in
the VHS version, Mr. DNA says, "your
blood" in a perfectly normal voice. (VHS/Theatre)
- Stupendous
Man

The film starts with a mistake the gate
keeper falls off the top of the cage and fall
on his back, but is shown in next scene turning
over from his back. Really poor jump shot.
(VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

Next when the doctor enters the trailer
he grabs the knob with one and it closes on
the opposite side inside the trailer. They
must of had more than one trailer with the
end cut off and door was not hinged on the
same side. (VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

When in the copter the raptor claw he is
holding is vertical then side ways and in
one hand then two hands. Again bad jump shots.
(VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

When they are seated in the copter they
exit in a different order than when in flight.
No time to change seats. (VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

The lawyer when seated for the show of DNA
was siting back and then next scene he is
leaning on the seats in front of him. (VHS/DVD)
- teacher
man

When the wonderful jeep driver loses control
and lands in a ditch up to his head lights
but when he gets out front is clear and a
log is holding it. Next this charming fellow
starts to pull out the cable on the wench
turns and he performs the process all over
again. (VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

At the jeep scence with Rex roaming around
the glass brakes more than once when attacked
but old rex. Also when the lambs leg is thrown
into the scene it comes from the opposite
side that it should have flown in from. (VHS/DVD)
- teacher
man

When the Prof. and little girl are about
to climb down the cables are all flat on the
wall below but when on the the cable it loops
up behind them. (VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

Look close at the tree climbing to save
the boy when going up and down you can see
the ladder he is using to climb on. (VHS/DVD)
- teacher
man

When the boy is fired off the fence he is
vertical but land in the hands of the actor
horizontal. Otherwise he would have bumped
his head. (VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

At the end when the blond Prof. is hanging
from the dino bones she rotates clockwise
oneway and counter clockwise in the next scene
no time to unwind. (VHS/DVD) - teacher
man

In the scene where they are just arriving
at the island when the helicopter is coming
down to the landing pad the jeeps in the scene
pull up to the pad twice in different camera
shots. - bdude7

Okay. Some people think that in the part
with the Galimimus, Dr. Grant "mistakenly"
says that the Galimimus look like "a
flock of birds 'avaiding' a predator."
If you were any smarter, you would see that
he says "evading" not "avaiding"
or "avoiding"! - MichaelMyers666

Just an FYI in the scene where the kids
and Grant and Ellie run to the computer room
while they are waiting for the kid to
turn on the locks (this can be seen on the
video as well) when the raptor pushes the
door in you can clearly see and man outside
pushing the door open in the glass reflection.
- Michelle

(Continuity) When I was watching Jurassic
Park I have noticed a big mistake: When Alan
and Tim are up in the tree with the car, and
they start climbing down, the car starts to
move and falls down. Allan bends over and
the car is stopped by a branch. When this
happens, the left headlight smashes. When
they start to hurry down you see a different
shot (probably stand-ins) and the left headlight
is perfectly fine. And in the next shot it's
broken again. - Jimmy

(Factual errors) At the beginning we find
Dr Grant digging up Velociraptors in Montana.
He must have dug a very very deep hole, Velocirator
came from Mongolia! Before any one suggests
it that was the opposite side of the world
in the Cretaceous to. (DVD) - Tallon
Trooper

(Errors in geography) Does it strike any
one as strange that the amber Ingen used to
create the dinosaurs came from the Dominican
Republic but not one of the dinosaurs they
got comes form that continent? (DVD) - Tallon
Trooper

(Factual errors) The velociraptors in the
movie are explained and appear to be 6 feet
tall when the fact of the matter is the velociraptor
only reached lengths of 3 and a half feet
the dinosaur used in the movie was more likely
the velociraptors cousin the utahraptor or
any other raptor variety. - Big
Mike

(Plot holes) Ok, when Dr. Grants woman is
looking for Lex, Dr. Grant and Tim. How do
they get down in that pit and if they do get
down there the way Grant and Lex did how did
they get back up. This mess up has always
bothered me. - ALex
WEightman

(Revealing mistakes) At the beginning of
the movie they said they clocked the T-rex
at 32 m.p.h, and when Ian and Elle get chased
by the T-rex that truck could get away in
1 or 2nd gear and it shows the guy shifting
2 or 3 times. - Alex

(Continuity) When the helicopter is leaving
the island,in the side window you can see
they are flying through the island.Yet when
Alan is looking at the seagulls flying over
the ocean the camera comes back to him. You
can clearly see they are still flying through
the island. - FlyBoy12

(Crew/equipment visible) When the T-rex
knocks over the car with Lex and Tim in it,
after it stops rolling you can clearly see
a light stand used in the movie and other
pieces of movie equipment. Pretty interesting.
NOTE: You have to pause the movie at just
the right spot to see it. - FlyBoy12

(Misc.) The T-Rex has just recently pinned
Tim and Dr. Grant and the girl are trying
to free him; but they hear the T-Rex and stop.
The next scene is the shot of the T-Rex standing
right over them and the girl screams... when
the girl screams Dr. Grant Reaches up to cover
her mouth, he misses and grabs her breast;
he then quickly corrects this and covers her
mouth. (VHS) - Fuderyuu

(Audio/visual unsynchronized/gag) Dennis
Nedry has just recently crashed and has his
jeep stuck. When he gets to the bottom to
tie his Jeep to a big tree, he is followed
by a Dilophosaurus (forgive my bastardization
of the spelling) and quickly tries to get
up the muddy and slippery hill to the Jeep.
Pay close attention to the sound played when
he slips; the sound is that of a whistle like
in cartoons when a character slips and falls.
(VHS/DVD) - Fuderyuu

Debated
Goofs

The cars are parked next to a concrete wall,
a couple feet high, on which was mounted a
large electrified fence. Now on the other
side of that wall, we saw earlier GROUND.
Later, in an attempt to escape a hungry dino
Grant and Lex jump over to the other side
of that same wall and rappel DOWN A CLIFF!

Comment: You
said that at the T-Rex paddock, first
we see ground, and then later it's a cliff
when Lex and Grant are trying to escape
the rex... actually, I've watched the
tape several times, and the cliff appears
to be on the *opposite* side of the road
from the previous shots. - Sean
Mearns

Correction:
Sean's remark about the wall being
on the other side of the road, is
wrong. The cars turned around and
the scene is a huge goof, no doubt
about it. It's plain to anyone who
has ever seen the movie. - Andrew
c.

Comment:
After the cars leave the T-Rex
place aren't they shown driving
forward? Then later it shows them
heading back. Last time I checked
there was no place to turn the
cars around at... - Jax

Amber found in The
Dominican Republic only dates back 20 million
years, whereas dinosaurs became extinct about
65 million years ago.

Correction:
The earth is not millions of years old
as most people think. There are thousands
of things that make this and evolution
impossible. - Bob

Comment:
1) BOB, this is a MOVIE site, not
a "preach your good word to the
masses" site. 2) This is a fricken
MOVIE! Take it easy man. 3) Why didn't
they clone Adam and Eve? - god-x

Comment:
Thats right it's a movie goof
site, and there is a goof in this
movie! DUH! - Bob

Bob, I'd love to hear
a theory that proves that the earth is
not millions of years old.

Comment: I
agree with Bob the earth isn't millions
of years old it's over 1.5 billion years
old and I know im probably going to get
some S@$# over this but oh well. - ash

Comment:
First of all, there has not been one
solid piece of proof ever to say that
the earth is billions of years old.
These "radioactive-dating"
methods are frauds. I wont make a
speech here. Get a Book! - Bob

You have your
own little conspiracy theory, eh? Everything
we learn in school about evolution and
stuff is all wrong? How old is the earth
then, Bob?

Comment:
You're darn right that evolution
is wrong. There are plenty of proofs
for the earth being about less than
10,000 years old. Again, get a book!
- Bob

You believe that in
less than 10,000 years there
was time for enough dinosaurs
to evolve and to die and for
humans to evolve to what we
are today? Unlikely. Anybody
else got an opinion on this
issue?

Comment:
Bob, You tell us to "get
a book". I've read a lot
of scientific books, and nowhere
have I seen a proof, or even
a hint, that the Earth is just
about 10,000 years old. I have
also read some non-scientific
books, that without presenting
any acceptable proofs deny the
scientific observations of the
age of the Earth. - Olav
Westerman

Comment:
Bob, what year do you think
it is? - Ruby

Comment:
Bob, the earth is about 4.5
billion years old. You tell
all of us to get a book?! Maybe
you should b/c if you did you
would learn the earth is older
than 10,000 years! You should
add a few more zeros! - paige

Comment:
Bob, I believe you are correct
in saying the Earth is only
10,000 years old and that the
theory of evolution is false.
Besides if Evolution could actually
be proven it would be a law
by now and not a theory. - B2

Comment:
Okay, let's take it that
we can't prove Evolution
Theory. Can you disprove
it? Moreso, can you prove
an alternative? - El
Loco

This
debate ends here.

Mosquitoes didn't
exist when dinosaurs did! - Mrs.Sippy

Correction:
This is not true, mosquitoes did exist
when dinos did. If you believe in creationism
they did and if you believe in the theory
of evolution they did. Either way they
did. - David

Comment:
Who's heard of "creationISM"?
- CBStryker

Comment:
"CreationISM" is the
belief in Creation, as EvolutionISM
is the belief in the theory of
evolution. - David

Correction:
They did exist then, but I would like
to see a mosquito that could puncture
through thick reptilian skin! - Manacle

Comment:
Mosquitoes in the Jurassic Period
were very large. I'd say about 5 times
as big as today's average one. They
were probably tough little suckers.
- Mew

Comment:
There is only speculative evidence
to suggest that dinosaurs had "thick
reptilian skin". It's not even
certain whether or not they were reptiles
at all. - El Loco

Steven Spielberg made
some huge mistakes when making this movie.
Half the dinos that appeared in the movie
don't belong! The Mesozoic/Dino era consisted
of three main periods, the Triassic, Jurassic,
and Cretaceous. The T-rex, Triceratops, and
Velociraptor all didn't appear until the middle
of the Cretaceous period! The only dino that
really belonged in THE JURASSIC was the Brachiosaurus!
Plus, the Velociraptor isn't really the way
paleontologists predicted how it looked, for
it was modeled by computer animationists looking
at the skeleton of a Utahraptor! That huge
claw on the Velociraptprs' feet do not belong.
There is a species of dinos called the Velociraptors,
but they aren't portrayed correctly in the
movie. - kris

Comment: About
the supposed goof that the different dinosaurs
didn't belong together: This isn't a movie
about time-travelling, and nowhere (as
far as I know) it is said that all the
creatures the scientists managed to recreate,
originally did exist in the same era.
- Olav Westerman

Correction:
It's true that the velociraptors are wrong,
but not for the reasons listed. They weren't
modeled after the utahraptorm the utahraptor
hadn't been discovered until AFTER the
movie came out. Spielberg wanted to make
the raptors bigger and scarier, so he
had them built that way. - Dazz

Comment:
You said Spielberg didn't model the
Velociraptor after the Utahraptor,
he just made the raptor bigger. Well
if he wanted a bigger raptor he should
have just used another dino from the
family - Deinonychus (excuse the spelling)
it was bigger, and looked very similar
to the velociraptor. This would rid
any confusion. Oh well, velociraptor
is still cool. - myname

Correction:
Myname, Deinonicus (sorry i spelled
it wrong) were actually no bigger
than veloceraptors, they were
just about the same size. - Malcolm

Comment: Yo
kris! Just because it's called *Jurrasic*
Park, doesn't mean that all the dinosaurs
came from that era! I heard somewhere
that the movie needed a catchy name. -
Greg

Comment: Actually
I don't think that by including all of
these dinosaurs in Jurassic Park Steven
was making a goof. He was just using the
dinos that Michael Crichton had in his
book of the same name. There were others
mentioned in the book that weren't even
included until the later movies. - Wendi

I got a question. If frog dna was added
to the dinos, wouldn't they come out to be
dino/frog hybrids? The only thing I could
think of is that they didn't need enough frog
dna to alter the dinos physical appearance.
- myname

Correction/Answer:
The dinosaurs wouldn't have been dino/frog
hybrids because something like 90% of
ALL DNA is the same. It's that small 10%
that specializes species and individuals.
It explains that more in the book than
in the movie. Also, it's for this reason
that Grant assumes the rex can only see
movement: Frogs can't see things that
don't move. And don't believe everything
you read about dinosaurs...you can't predict
behaviour from bones, no matter how hard
you try. You can only theorize. - Dazz

Comment:
First of all, thanx, Dazz for answering
my question, but I think there is
a goof there. You said that Grant
assumes that the Rex can't see moving
objects because frogs can't, and frog
DNA is blended w/ that of the Dinos.
But this can't be, because in the
early scene when Grant is lecturing
the kid about raptors in the Badlands,
he says "you might think his
visual acuity is based on movement
like a T-Rex; he'll lose you if you
don't move." Yet this is before
Hammond even landed, so Grant would
know nothing about Jurassic Park,
therefore nothing about the frog DNA
in the Rex, so this is false information.
Plus, T-Rex, unlike a frog, is one
of the greatest carnivores of all
time, and it is highly unlikely he
can't see still objects, like trees
or even the ground, or he would walk
right into objects like the electric
fence. - myname

Comment:
There's some evidence now that
the T-Rex wasn't the carnivore
we'd like him to be but rather
a scavanger, this being the reason
why he had such short arms and
his legs weren't really proportioned
for running.. But this is just
a comment, a bit of interesting
info that if found to be true
would make the whole movie a goof
since the T-Rex is a main character..
- orly9

Commented
Goofs

When they are leaving the island and (blank)
is looking at the birds, over his shoulder
are some trees flying past the window, yet
they are way out at sea!!! - Bob

Comment: They
couldn't possibly be way out at sea, because
sea birds do not travel far from the coast.
- tracy

Comment: You're
absolutely right! Dinos cannot spit! I
think it would hurt the dinosaurs to have
acid in them too. As for CBStryker, shut
up you moron. - kfdsiohfasdbuut

Comment:
First of all, name-calling is NOT
going to help your argument in the
least bit, so don't do it. Second,
since neither you, I, the makers of
"Jurassic Park", or the
paleontologists that study dinosaurs
have ever seen, let alone study, a
live dinosaur, making a blanket statement
like "No dinosaurs spit out goop."
or such is incorrect since nobody
can be quite sure. Now someone could
say "It is unlikely that dinosaurs
spit out black goop" and have
a valid point, but making blanket
statements about ANYTHING is a big
no-no when it comes to science. -
David

Comment:
How do you suppose snakes spit venom?
They don't die from their own. - Ignite

Snakes do not
spit venom. Venom comes from their
teeth.

How is it possible that from the DNA from
a mosquito they can also recreate prehistorical
plants and vegetables? Do musquito's suck
on plants?! - gerard

When the movie was in the theaters, there
was a scene where Laura Dern is in the jeep
and reaches up to grap a leaf from a plant.
The next scene we see here looking at the
leaf, but in the VHS, T.V. and DVD copies
of the movie, this scene as been removed.
Anyone know why? - Scoprion444

Comment: The
scene where Laura Dern pulls the leaf
from the tree has been removed. We see
her looking at the leaf, but do not see
her pull the leaf off. - Scoprion444

When Dr. Grant, and all the rest are flying
to the island for the first time, Dr. Hammond
is sitting, facing the rear of the helocoptor,
meaning he would have to turn around to see
where they were flying to. However, when they
are approaching the island , he looks infront
of him and says "There it is!" This
means he was flying backwards and the island
was infront of him when it was approaching
him from behind. - Mama
Mahala

Comment: Possibly
he was only telling the others, "there
it is" and wasn't directly meaning
it was in front of him. - Ignite

First, in the kitchen scene, while the
raptor is running towards the freezer (after
Tim), the way they made the raptor run was
ridiculous. First of all they should have
used animation for that shot. Second of all
you can clearly see that the raptor body was
being supported steadily and the feet were
just flopping around on the floor. *Ever notice
how much the raptor's eyes change throughout
those 8 years between all three movies? And
I know that the Dilophosaurus's frill was
made for "coolness" (and in fact
I liked it very, very much, but no dinosaurs
had the bony attachments to the base of the
head to pull up that sort of frill. - nemesis

Comment: Exactly
how do you know there was no sort of creature
like this? Have you personally seen every
creature from that time period? - Ignite

In the lab when the egg is hatching the
robotic arm in one scene is very close to
the hatching egg, the very next scene is bent
and away from the egg. - monica
polo

You probably mean
that in the next 'shot' the robo-arm is in a different
position.

Comment:
Well, it does more than that. It totally
disappears from one shot to the next.
One shot it's there and the next it's
totally gone. I saw this goof posted
on another site and checked it out,
it's a goof alright. So the blue text
saying "You probably mean that
in the next 'shot' the robo-arm is
in a different position." Nope,
you're wrong and Monica Polo is right...
even though he/she probably saw this
goof posted on another site. - Mac

Corrected
Goofs

When Tim is electrocuted, his hair is all
messed up, but when they go into the cafeteria,
his hair is all combed, and matted down neatly.
-Vic
Cherubini

Correction:
Actually, it took time to walk from the
place of electricution to the cafeteria,
so in the hot sun he may have broke out
in a sweat, and Alan Grant also pats down
Tim's hair and states that it is standing
on end. "Big Tim the human piece
of toast." (VHS) - tracy

If all the Dinosaurs are supposedly behind
electric fences, how is it that they can all
get out of the cars and walk directly into
the Triceratops paddock. - FlyBoy

Correction:
Not all dinosaurs are behind the electric
fences, only carnivorous dinos who may
pose a threat to humans. When they first
enter the park they see a herd of dinosaurs,
they tend to the triceratops, and feed
the bracchiosaurus, none of these animals
fed on meat, only plants. - MuNiaCo

Comment: My
problem with that is that some of the
most dangerous animals in the world are
herbavores.. For example, Elephants, Rhinos,
and Hippos. Hippos kill more people in
Africa than any other animal. SO? Would
you let a wild Triceratops run free???
I know I wouldn't! Never mind a Brachiosaurus
who may not even notice you when he steps
on you!!! - Darkfox

Robert Muldoon says "I told you, we
needed locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors."
This means that none was to allowed out of
the cars. so why is there public toilets right
next to the t-rex paddock. - Dave

Correction:
John Hammond says this because there are
NOT locking mechanisms. This means that
people could get out of the cars to use
the toilets. He says that they NEED to
be able to lock the doors, for future
tours. - tracy

When everyone is in the computer room, and
the raptors are trying to get in, Dr. Grant
fires several shots at them through the glass
with his shotgun. If you look at the glass
while they are fleeing, there are three or
four small "bullet" holes in the
glass; obviously not fired from a shotgun.
(Just a note, in the book, instead of shotguns
they had laser guided missile launchers. Wouldn't
that have been better? I think so.) - leroy

Correction:
Shotguns can also fire solid slugs. A
12 gauge slug would put a raptor down
pretty nicely (A .22 caliber rifle round
will put a hole in you the size of your
fist on the way out.) - snooz

When Robert Muldoon and Ellie sattler ride
up to the t-rex paddock, Ellie looks over
the edge and sees the other car. In ` the
next scene, she's down there in the t-rex
paddock beside the car. - dave

Correction:
This isn't a goof. Obviously they walked
down the cliff, Spielberg just didn't
take the time to show us that. - daner21

The electric fence that supposedly can kill
a dinosaur seems to only shock a kid boy.
Are boys alot stronger then we thought? -
Kaz

Correction:
I don't think they would want the fences
to kill their multi-million dollar dinosaur
creations if they accidentally "bumbed"
a fence. Muldoon even says the raptors
attacked the fences when the feeders came,
and it obviously didn't kill the dinos
then. The fences were electrified to zap
the dinosaurs and give them something
to think about if they wanted out. - Atrocity

The dilophosaurus didn't spit anything in
real life, and I heard that it was actually
around 20 feet long! - myname

Correction:
Dilophosaurus was much bigger than shown,
but the creature which attacks Nedry could
have been a baby! - tomk

The girl shouldn't have been electrocuted
as she wasn't touching the ground - you have
to be grounded. - The Briggster

Correction:
First of all it was a boy that was electrocuted
on the perimeter fence, and second of
all, it is true that you half to be grounded
to be electrocuted, because you finnish
the circuit, but you can also get electrocuted
if you are touching two wires, which Tim
was (his hands were touching one, and
his feet were touching one)...your are
still completing the circuit. Birds don't
get electrocuted, because the are only
touching one wire, and not completing
the circuit, so the movie was right in
that Tim should have been electrocuted
like he was. - Ryan

When everyone is in the lab where the raptor
eggs are hatching, the baby raptor is bloody
when it comes out of its egg. Reptiles are
not bloody when they are born. - Naslectronical

Correction:
What kind of science you studying?
Dinosaurs are indeed reptiles. What
did you think they were, arthropods?
- Naslectronical

Explained
Goofs

When the T-Rex has his head over Tim and
Lex's jeep, he opens his mouth slightly, when
he does, he shakes a little bit, it is VERY
easy to notice, he shivers sorta. Also when
he eats the goat, and swallows it and looks
at the people over the fence, he slightly
shakes. - Spikey

Explanation:
Actually, that was a problem with the
robot T-Rex. The rain would get inside
and mess with all his gears and wires,
and he'd start to shake uncontrollably.
They had to dry him off every 2 minutes
while shooting the scene. Guess the 'shivering'
shots were the best they could get :)
P.S. Jurassic Park was originally, a BOOK,
as some people don't seem to know. - snooz

Addition:
You can also hear the gears/hydraulics
creak as T-rex moves it's head towards
the auto. (TV-digital pvr) - galina

Comment:
In most major films especially
in the States the sound is completely
done in post production. The 100%
dialog is rarely used even if
there would be a chance to get
good sound from the set. It is
VERY doubtful that there would
be any sound in the film that
wasn't meant to be there. In this
case (I'm not currently watching
the film) I would suggest the
sound is meant to come from the
vehicle. - janila

One thing that has always bugged me, and
I don't really think this is a flub, but how
in the world did that T-rex even get into
the building at the end? No one heard it,
and I don't recall ever seeing any doors that
big. (VHS) - LadyLaraCroft

Explanation:The raptor who attacked Muldoon
finished his snack while the diversion
raptor and the raptor who was chasing
Ellie both went to the kitchen (they met
there). Remember, there were only 3 raptors.
The raptor was not finished eating Muldoon
when the Tyrannosaur scared it off (the
tyrannosaur finished Muldoon so the raptor
wasn't eating for that long) The raptor
ran to the building and came in from a
CONSTRUCTION GAP. The right to the doors
(from the inside of the building) had
a big sheet over it with some supports
and stuff because there was a huge hole
there (remember- the park wasn't finished
yet.) Anyways, the raptor that was eating
muldoon came through that way (remember
when he lifted the sheet up with his head?
Well the T-rex must have been still stalking
him. So the tyrannosaur followed him to
the building and through the large gap.
Also, would you notice a tyrannosaur walking
in w
hen your about to be mauled by two viscious
raptors!? No! Lastly, remember the other
raptor was locked in the freezer. He was
the last one to die probably a day later.
- Nemesis